Wolfgang Hildesheimer Quotes

"I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person."
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
(Related: Life, Men, Animals, Magic, Perfection, State)

"The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years."
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
(Related: Years)